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darthtalon89 · 2 years

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#OnThisDay in #gothichistory it's the #DeathAnniversary of #EdgarPoe #EdgarAllanPoe #Americanwriter #writer #editor #literarycritic #Poe #poetry #shortstories #mystery #macabre #Romanticism #detectivefiction #sciencefiction #gothicliterature #tales #literatura #literaturagotica #horror #horrornovel #terror #poesia #goth #gothic #gotico #EdgarAllanPoePoem #adreamwithinadream https://www.instagram.com/p/CjagKWyrxOA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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poetry-lair · 3 years

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The She - Devil of Via D’Azeglio

“She-Devil of Via D’Azeglio” (la Diavolessa di Via D’Azeglio), is a monument that are in Bologna, Italy.

The meaning of this statue are two: It’s a protector of the wanderers and is a reminder of the process of Caterina, a woman who lived in Bologna in 15th Century at Bologna and she was accused of Witchcraft and heavily persecuted for this.

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oldenglishpoetry · 5 years

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Picked this up awhile back... #gothsandromans #goths #history #romans #romanhistory #gothichistory #europeanhistory #earlymedieval #medieval #lateantiquity #bookstagrammer #bookshelf #bookstagram #books #bookshelf #bookcollection #history (at Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx2dPMrHf9I/?igshid=105mnoiztm4ax

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generallygothic · 3 years

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𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈 𝕸𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖘 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 Well, here we are: the new, where endings and beginnings converge. 🌬 As we settle in, self-reflect, and set goals relating to sugar and sport (you? No, me neither.), my focus will turn to gothic prebirth: that bloody mess that preceeded our dearly beloved mode. 🌬 Favourably entitled 'Gothic Muses', throughout January we will step beyond the boundaries, beyond perceived literary limits. We shall poke around, amongst the predecessors and fillips that unknowingly paved the absurd, bone-strewn pathway that long led to the birth of the gothic. 🌬 I hope you will join me; I may be slow and sporadic, but spook nerdery isn't a race... If you have requests, suggestions, submissions, guest post desires, creative urges to fulfill, get in touch! 📮: inbox is open! 🔗 in bio. . #gothicmuses #gothicliterature #gothicinfluences #gothicorigins #gothichistory #darkacademia #bookstagram #bookish #chiaroscuro #moodyphotography #spookyphotography #spookynerds #bookworm #nerdy #callsforsubmissions #callforartists #callforwriters #collab #englishliterature #books #window #academia https://www.instagram.com/p/CJpASnqAGza/?igshid=kpwlvazdlyda

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ofgraveconcern · 2 years

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‘To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb; The appointed place of rendezvous, where all These travellers meet’ The Grave Robert Blair 1743. The remains of gothic literary characters. Tombstones for sale on the website: www.ofgraveconcern.com/deadpoetsandwriters #varneythevampire #ichabod #ichabodcrane #thelegendofsleepyhollow #gothicliterature #gothichorror #pennydreadful #gravestonesofinstagram #cemeteriesofinstagram #taphophile #gravestoneart #gothichistory #gothicbooks #gothiclit #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #victoriangothic #gothicvictorian #darkart #darkartists #darkartwork #darkartistssubmission #darkhistory #darkillustration #gothicillustration #darkromanticism #graveart #tombstoneart https://www.instagram.com/p/CddtBxPO78E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ofgraveconcern · 2 years

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The Vampires of Rhode Island Act Two: Sarah Tillinghast, Exeter, Rhode Island, Autumn 1799 - Spring 1800 Part Two of the tragic history of the New England Vampire Panic. The June 1784 edition of the Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer newspaper displays a letter to the editor warning its readers to beware of ‘quack doctors’ , who proclaim that families who dig up their recently dead relatives and burn them, will be spared more deaths from the deadly disease of consumption. It appears this advice was not followed, especially in rural Rhode Island, and what follows is the history of this unfollowed advice and the folklore that replaced it. Follow at @ofgrave.concern And visit www.ofgraveconcern.com/thevampiresofrhodeisland for the original artwork shown inspired by the history above. #newenglandliving #newenglandhistory #rhodeisland #rhodeislandhistory #rhodeislandcemetery #historicalcemetery #cemeteriesandgraveyards #cemeteriesofnewengland #cemeteriesofinstagram #vampirehistory #exhumation #tubercolosis #mercybrown #darkhistory #strangehistory ##exeterri #historystories #gothictales #historicalstories #historicaltales #gothictales #vampireillustration #vampireart #vampireartwork #vampirefiction #vampyre #vampyr #historicalillustration #gothichistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CguRcUIu1aa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ofgraveconcern · 2 years

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13th July 1793, murder of French political theorist, physician and journalist Jean-Paul Marat. A radical voice during the early years of the French Revolution, Marat championed the voice of the poor through his periodical ‘L'Ami du peuple’ (Friend of the People), aligning himself with the radical Jacobins. Upon the ascension of the Jacobins to power this same year, they sought to eradicate their moderate rivals known as the Girondins. One Girondin sympathiser and royalist named Charlotte Corday, one this day gained access to Marat’s house, while he was taking a medicinal bath to aid the debilitating skin condition he suffered from. After claiming that she had vital information on a group of escaped Girondins, she withdrew a five-inch kitchen knife out from her corset, and brought it down hard into Marat's chest. For the murder Charlotte Corday was guillotened four days later, claiming "I killed one man to save 100,000." Marat was later immortalised the same year by the French painter Jacques-Louis David in his painting, ‘The Death of Marat’. 14th July 1789, pre revolutionary tensions in Paris culminate at the site of the Mediaeval prison known as the Bastille. Although only housing seven prisoners on this day, the fortress was seen as representing the pinnacle of monarchical abuse of power. With rioting already occurring across Paris, hostilities began at the Bastille by impassioned speeches by French journalist and revolutionary Camille Desmoulins, and one of the Bastille’s own residents, the Marquis De Sade, who was removed at the beginning of the month, for shouting from the window of his cell, that the prison authorities planned to massacre the inmates, (continued in the comments). #gothichorrorart #romanticismart #romanticism #gothichorror #gothicacademia #frenchrevolution #bastille #bastilleday #bastilleday🇫🇷 #guillotine #gothicillustration #darkacademiaaesthetic #frenchhistory #tarotart #gothicprint #gothicprints #darkromance #darkromantic #gothicliterature #darkarts #darkillustration #tarothistory #darkartwork #darkartandcraft #darkaesthetic #darkartistssubmission #headlessportrait #18thcenturyhistory #19thcenturyhistory #gothichistory https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf_pVaROUHe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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16th October 1793, previous Queen of France prior to the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, then called ‘Widow Capet’, is executed by guillotine. Convicted of high treason by the Revolutionary Tribunal, she is executed at the Place de la Révolution, following the execution of her husband King of France Louis XVI, which took place on the 21st January 1793. Labelled as ‘Madame Deficit’, for her extravagant lifestyle, and lack of understanding of the economic problems facing France prior to the Revolution; her reputation was further tarnished during the "Diamond Necklace Affair", in which she was falsely accused of defrauding the crown jewels and the jewelers in order to purchase a very expensive necklace. The affair also involved the Italian adventurer, magician, alchemist, occultist and free mason Giuseppe Balsamo, who self styled himself Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. Marie Antionette also is falsy associated with the story in which she misunderstood the cries of the French poor for bread, as being cries of dissatisfaction for eating bread, in which she replied. ‘Let them eat cake’. This account actually derives from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘confessions’, and was published in 1782, and is not based upon Marie Antionette. Due to these accusations, and other false accounts, such as her affair with Lafayette, whom she actually hated, and incest with her son; she was tried and convicted with her execution already arranged before her trial. Her head was then given to Marie Tussaud for the making of a wax death mask, and her body thrown into an unmarked grave. Continued in the comments: #history #historymemes #gothictales #frenchrevolution #tarothistory #tarotcards #tarotart #tarotartist #mortalsmarket #illustrationdaily #gothicillustration #guillotine #gothichistory #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #widowcapet #marieantoinette #marieantoinettestyle #frenchhistory #frenchhistory🇫🇷 #placedelarevolution #letthemeatcake #letthemeatcake🎂 #deathmask #deathmasks #tarotillustration #tarotillustrator #uniquetarotdeck https://www.instagram.com/p/CVDkEfqlE48/?utm_medium=tumblr

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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21st July 1725. The Hungarian newspaper ‘Wienerisches Diarium’ publishes the first use of the word vampire in published history. The story was a copy of a manuscript from the Hungarian Gradisker Distrikt, (modern day North West Serbia) detailing the account of a Serbian peasant named Peter Plogojowitz who died that year, and was believed to have become a vampire. The account written by the Imperial Provisor, (an official of the Austrian administration), named Frombald details how upon the death of Plogojowitz he rose from the grave killing nine people by throttling them. Upon viewing the exhumed body he records his astonishment that the local vampire beliefs are true, Plogojowitz’s beard and hair had grown, along with new skin and nails, blood was also seen in his mouth. The body was then staked through the heart. The newspaper is still in existence and is now printed with the title ‘Wiener Zeitung’. The report and others like them led to the 18th Century Vampire Controversy in Europe, which would influence the birth of Gothic horror later in the century, and the emergence of vampire fiction early in the 19th Century. All art shown is original and influenced by the 18th century Vampire controversy, and the gothic literary reaction from it in the 19th century. The artwork is for sale at: www.ofgraveconcern/mythology You are also invited in to follow more dark tales of history @ofgrave.concern #vampirehistory #exhumation #darkhistory #strangehistory #historystories #gothictales #historicaltale #vampireillustration #vampireart #vampireartwork #vampirefiction #vampyre #vampyr #historicalillustration #gothichistory #vampiretales #bramstokersdracula #gothicliterature #bramstokerdracula #dracula #vampire #draculalive #vampires #horror #vampirelife #bramstoker #gothicstyle #hungarianhistory #18thcenturyhistory #regencygothic https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrValLlQMC/?utm_medium=tumblr

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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Temperance Ofgraveconcern Industrial Sublime Tarot 1760 - 1848 Major Arcana: Temperance Year: 1760 Event: ‘Politia Naturae’ Historical Figure or Fictional Character: Carl Linnaeus Each Tarot card print also comes with an explanation detailing the cards visual meaning; and its associated history from the 18th and 19th century, and how this history has resonance to the past, present or future to the drawer of the card. The prints are available with free shipping to the domestic United States at: www.ofgraveconcern.com/industrialsublimetarot1760-1848 Follow @ofgrave.concern to see a new card every Tarot Tuesday! #darktarot #tarotillustration #tarotart #tarotartist #tarotdecks #steampunktarot #steampunkillustration #steampunkdecor #tarothistory #wingedfigure #historicaltarot #gothichistory #gothicfiction #gothicillustration #temperance #temperancetarot #occulthistory #temperancetarotcard #historicaltarot #carllinnaeus #18thcenturyhistory #tarotcommunity #balanceofnature #occultartist #occultart #majorarcana #occultarcana #esotericart #tarotreadersofinstagram #theunconscious https://www.instagram.com/p/CNDMcePHLQF/?igshid=z0pxit4skf0r

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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12th May 1828, birth of English Pre-Raphaelite founder, poet and painter Gabriel Dante Rossetti, nephew of John William Polidori, author of the first modern Vampire story, ‘The Vampyre’, published in 1819, and brother to poet Christina Rossetti, and writer and critic William Michael Rossetti. In 1848 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, alongside his brother and artists William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which attempted to revolutionize English art through a return to medieval aesthetics and symbolism. In 1850, Rossetti met Elizabeth Siddal, who would become over the next decade his muse, model and lover. In 1862 she died possibly by suicide of an overdose of laudanum. Grief stricken Rossetti buried all of his poetry with her at her grave in Highgate cemetery. Later digging them up, he descended into depression and addiction, dying in 1872. In 1894, Rosetti’s sister Christina died, and was also buried at Highgate. Highgate Cemetery was opened in 1839, to replace the medieval practice of burials in small parish churches. With the population of London more than doubling during the late 18th and early 19th century, this had led to a dangerous overcrowding of burials. Stories from prior to the cemeteries opening, talk of mourners witnessing their loved ones graves being dug, whereupon another was discovered, if the grave was within five, the remains were stomped into the ground to provide space for a new burial on top. Older burials were removed and cast aside to allow space, with coffins burned for firewood. This overcrowding had led parish churches to simply pile the dead into their church basements, (continued in the comments) #preraphaelite #preraphelites #rosetti #highgatecemetery #highgatecemetary #gothicvictorian #victoriangothic #victoriangothicstyle #vampirefiction #vampireaesthetic #vampireart #gothicfiction #johnwilliampolidori #thevampyre #horrorfiction #regencygothic #gothichistory #gabrieldanterossetti #victorianhistory #victorian #gothiccemetery #maryshelley #maryshelleyfrankenstein #michaelfaraday #gothictales #19thcenturyhistory #gothicillustration #historicalillustration #highgatevampire #vampirehistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CO0wAikH6nP/?igshid=1c3sb9ut5imth

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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20th May 1533 or 1537, birth of pioneering anatomist, surgeon, and "The Father of Embryology”, Hieronymus Fabricius. Causing a revolution in anatomical teaching he designed the first theatre for public anatomical dissections in 1594. Fabricus also designed an orthopedic exoskeleton he called the ‘Oplomoclion’. One of his students was the English physician William Harvey, the first known physician to completely map systemic circulation, and describe in detail the properties of blood pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart. Fabricius died on May the 21st 1619 in Padua, Italy. 23rd May 1718, birth of Scottish anatomist and physician William Hunter, a leading teacher of anatomy. His brother John is also known to history as a prolific surgeon, and teacher and collaborator of Edward Jenner, the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine. In 1768 John Hunter built the famous anatomy theatre and museum in Great Windmill Street, Soho, London. Figures of medical controversy, John Hunter is alleged to have paid for the stolen body of Charles Byrne, "The Irish Giant", who against the wishes of Byrne’s family displayed and studied the skeleton. He also studied and displayed the corpses of executed criminals. Another controversy was suggested In 2010, when it was claimed that the Hunters obtained pregnant women for anatomical study by paying for their murders. The claims however were heavily criticized and dismissed by medical historians. John and William Hunter were the Uncle to Romantic poet and playwright Joanna Baillie, named the ‘female Shakespeare’, by her friend, the poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott. With an interest in philosophy and the Gothic, (continued in the comments). #anatomicalart #anatomicalillustration #historyofanatomy #anatomical #anatomytheatre #bodysnatching #darkhistory #anatomy #anatomydrawing #johnhunter #williamhunter #joannabaillie #gothichistory #gothictales #weirdhistory #oddhistory #anatomicalart #darktarot #burkeandhare #tarotillustration #tarotart #tarotartist #regencygothic #resurrectionmen #historicalstories #historyofscience #macabretales #macabrehistory #macabreart #gothicstyle https://www.instagram.com/p/CPQxJbonI3c/?utm_medium=tumblr

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